In a message dated 97-07-14 21:09:38 EDT, you write:

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 some people, like Pritikin et. al. showed tremendous improvement in many
 patitents when put on low-fat diets. >>

This is why Louise Gittleman's book, "Beyond Pritkin", is so fascinating: she
was a protoge of his and director of nutrition at his center.  She now
advocates a moderate amount of correct fats in the diet for optimum health
and weight loss.

I suspect that simply comparing "low fat" and "high fat" diets is
meaningless.  There are probably significant differences in the
healthfullness of an Eskimo's high-fat diet of blubber and protein and a
typical American's high in artificial, damaged (trans) fats and dense
carbohydrates such as pizza, donuts, sugary breakfast cereals, french fries.
 I have little doubt anyone switching from this latter regime to fresh fruits
& vegetables, olive oil, and, yes, even brown rice would be making an
improvement so long as they got adequate protein.  (I've never heard of
anyone gorging on brown rice, but people gorge all the time on cookies, etc.)
 It's even possible the "high-fat" American diet it TOO LOW in EFAs since so
much of the fat is the alien form.

Certainly there are vested interested in the low-fat paradigm, but would
anyone claim there are no vested interested in the American-style high-fat
diet either?  McDonald's, Dominos, Mars Candy, Kellogg's come to mind.

Kathryn